KIEV, Sept. 21 – The decision of the National Bank of Ukraine to introduce passport checks on individuals making foreign currency exchanges at banks and financial institutions could lead to the growth of the shadow market, analysts said.

KIEV, Sept. 21 - The government of Ukraine has spent $1.2 billion of a $2 billion short-term bridge loan issued by Russia's VTB Bank in early June, Finance Minister Fedir Yaroshenko reported.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Ukraine and the United States have begun to dismantle around 200 9K72 Scud missiles decommissioned in 1997 and stored at the 48th ammunition arsenal of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry in Vinnytsia region, the ministry announced.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – The imposition of a tax on deposit incomes could provoke an outflow of deposits from the banking system, the Association of Ukrainian Banks warned.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Ukrainian authorities and Ukrainian corporations July 1, 2010 through July 1, 2011 are to pay $42.1 billion on foreign liabilities (without interest), or over $3.5 billion on average every month, the National Bank of Ukraine said.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – During talks on September 14-15, the delegations of Ukraine and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development agreed a draft loan agreement for the construction of a 750 kV overhead power transmission line between Zaporizhia nuclear power plant and Kakhovka substation, national energy company Ukrenergo said.

DNIPROPETROVSK, Sept. 20 – The United States is ready to increase funding of the program for the disposal of solid rocket fuel from SS-24 intercontinental ballistic missiles at Pavlohrad Chemical Plant in Dnipropetrovsk region, the plant's director general, Leonid Shyman, said at a press conference in Dnipropetrovsk on Monday.

KIEV, Sept. 18 – An agreement on the World Bank's issuing a $400 million loan to revive Ukraine's banking sector was signed in Kiev on Friday.

Economics Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn and World Bank Country Director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Martin Raiser signed the document.

KIEV, Sept. 18 – The fall of Ukraine's GDP in 2009 could be 15% with 14.5-15% inflation, the chairman of the Ukrainian accounting Chamber, Valentyn Symonenko, has said.

"We'll see a fall of at least 15% in GDP by the end of the year," he said.

Ukraine's Economy Ministry expects that GDP will fall by 10-12% in 2009.

ALUSHTA (Crimea), Sept. 21 – The hryvnia exchange rate can't be maintained at the current level without the support of the International Monetary Fund, Ihor Mitiukov, the head of the Ukrainian office of Morgan Stanley and a former Ukrainian finance minister has said.